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See our [[All The Tropes:FAQ for Creators|FAQ for Creators]] which in its second section explicitly says it's okay. Now beyond that we do have some more detailed rules about it, but I can't remember where they are. I'll search through the project namespace and when I find where they're specifically written down I'll share them with you. |
See our [[All The Tropes:FAQ for Creators|FAQ for Creators]] which in its second section explicitly says it's okay. Now beyond that we do have some more detailed rules about it, but I can't remember where they are. I'll search through the project namespace and when I find where they're specifically written down I'll share them with you. |
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Until then, what matters above and |
Until then, what matters above and beyond the basic OK is how obnoxious you get about it. We had one guy who wrote a whole sheaf of pages for his fanfics for a particular cartoon, but after a while it became very obvious that he was something of a fetishist who was using pages allegedly about his works to get off on describing just how disgusting they were. When he wouldn't tone things down or scale back his language, we were forced to ban him and eventually deleted the works pages because none of us knew enough about the fics in question (nor did we want to) to clean them up ourselves. (Not to mention we weren't sure they ''could'' be cleaned up.) We had another guy who was a very minor voice actor with a YouTube channel who did up a creator page for himself. Other than bad cases of [[Small Name, Big Ego]] and [[Small Reference Pools]] (he was apparently ignorant of any major film from before about 2010 and routinely credited his 3000-member channel with "rescuing" movies like ''[[Alien]]'' from obscurity) his page was relatively inoffensive although it was clear he was more a wannabe-celebrity than a real one. ''He'' eventually got banned, too, for basically ignoring trope definitions and creating "examples" that had nothing to do with tropes they allegedly demonstrated, but we left his creator page in place for years, until it came to our attention that his status as a creator had been dubious to begin with. |
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Meanwhile there are more than a few creators here -- including a goodly chunk of the mod staff -- who have frequently added their own comments and trope entries to pages other people wrote about their works. (That was once very welcome on TVT -- SF author [[Diane Duane]] used to trope her own stuff for example, back before the staff got very hostile toward creators who didn't like censorship. We like to think we're preserving the open and welcoming atmosphere that TVT threw away when it decided money was more important than anything else.) |
Meanwhile there are more than a few creators here -- including a goodly chunk of the mod staff -- who have frequently added their own comments and trope entries to pages other people wrote about their works. (That was once very welcome on TVT -- SF author [[Diane Duane]] used to trope her own stuff for example, back before the staff got very hostile toward creators who didn't like censorship. We like to think we're preserving the open and welcoming atmosphere that TVT threw away when it decided money was more important than anything else.) |
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